| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: players; he felt in his own breast the familiar tumult; and it
seemed as if there rose in his ears a sound of music, and the
moon seemed still to shine upon a sea, but the sea was
changed, and the Casino towered from among lamplit gardens,
and the money clinked on the green board. "Good God!" he
thought, "am I gambling again?" He looked the more curiously
about the sandy table. He and Mac had played and won like
gamblers; the mingled gold and silver lay by their places in the
heap. Amalu and Hemstead had each more than held their
own, but Tommy was cruel far to leeward, and the captain was
reduced to perhaps fifty pounds.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: Here she would remain, until the final expulsion of the English
and the conclusion of a treaty of peace in 1436 made it safe for
her to show herself; when she would naturally return to Lorraine
to seek her family.
The comparative obscurity in which she must have remained for the
rest of her life, otherwise quite inexplicable on any hypothesis
of her survival, is in harmony with the above-given explanation.
The ingratitude of King Charles towards the heroine who had won
him his crown is the subject of common historical remark. M.
Wallon insists upon the circumstance that, after her capture at
Compiegne, no attempts were made by the French Court to ransom
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: will stand upon and trample him.
[26] {epanieis}. See Sturz, s.v.
[27] Lit. "forwards the left foot will follow the left arm and the
right foot the other."
[28] "Statum venatoris aprum venabulo excipientis pinxit
Philostratus," "Imag." i. 28, Schn.
[29] Or, "he will step forward and take one stride not much longer
than that of a wrestler, and thrust forward his boar-spear."
[30] Cf. Hes. "Shield," 387; Hom. "Il." xii. 148: "Then forth rushed
the twain, and fought in front of the gates like wild boars that
in the mountains abide the assailing crew of men and dogs, and
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